The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe Harvard University, 1919 - Economics Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, this journal covers all aspects of the field -- from the journal's traditional emphasis on microtheory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. |
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... demand and supply can hardly be said to exist at all . In a sense , the law of demand and supply was simply inoperative . There resulted an abnormal and quite unprecedented condition in the wheat and flour market of the United States ...
... demand and supply can hardly be said to exist at all . In a sense , the law of demand and supply was simply inoperative . There resulted an abnormal and quite unprecedented condition in the wheat and flour market of the United States ...
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... . • From estimates by U. S. Food Administration , Milling Division . domestic buying demand was insistent and far exceeded the capacity 40 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS BERGLUND, ABRAHAM The Iron-Ore Problem of Lorraine • 531 PAGE.
... . • From estimates by U. S. Food Administration , Milling Division . domestic buying demand was insistent and far exceeded the capacity 40 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS BERGLUND, ABRAHAM The Iron-Ore Problem of Lorraine • 531 PAGE.
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... demand was insistent and far exceeded the capacity of the mills to keep pace with it . A marked reduction in operating costs resulted from this high rate of milling activity . A peculiar conse- quence was that many mills found it ...
... demand was insistent and far exceeded the capacity of the mills to keep pace with it . A marked reduction in operating costs resulted from this high rate of milling activity . A peculiar conse- quence was that many mills found it ...
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... demand , as measured by its price relative to all other prices whatsoever . The matter is not so simple as this , however . The argument assumes a degree of flexibility in consumers ' demand schedules and in the organization of ...
... demand , as measured by its price relative to all other prices whatsoever . The matter is not so simple as this , however . The argument assumes a degree of flexibility in consumers ' demand schedules and in the organization of ...
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... demand for breadstuffs probably unparal- leled in modern times . It was a burden too great to be sustained and the American marketing system , excellent tho it had proved itself in peace times , collapsed under the strain . It was ...
... demand for breadstuffs probably unparal- leled in modern times . It was a burden too great to be sustained and the American marketing system , excellent tho it had proved itself in peace times , collapsed under the strain . It was ...
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Page 328 - The right of workers to organize in trade unions and to bargain collectively, through chosen representatives, is recognized and affirmed. This right shall not be denied, abridged, or interfered with by the employers in any manner whatsoever.
Page 608 - For the twelve mnntha the net railroad revenue fell short of the amount required to meet the "standard return" by over 9202,000,000. The only district that earned its standard return was the Southern District, comprising the states east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac. The...
Page 328 - In establishments where the union shop exists the same shall continue, and the union standards as to wages, hours of labor, and other conditions of employment shall be maintained.
Page 167 - Act shall include the movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of cars used in the transportation of property by any carrier subject to the provisions of this Act.
Page 277 - The number of useful and productive labourers, it will hereafter appear, is every where in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work, and to the particular way in which it is so employed.
Page 328 - In establishments where union and nonunion men and women now work together and the employer meets only with employees or representatives engaged in said establishments, the continuance of such conditions shall not be deemed a grievance. This declaration, however, is not intended in any manner to deny the right or discourage the practice of the formation of labor unions...
Page 332 - make a general investigation of the compensation of persons in the railroad service, the relation of railroad wages to wages in other industries, the conditions respecting wages in different parts of the country, the special emergency respecting wages which exists at this time owing to war relation between different classes of railroad labor.
Page 190 - States, namely, the official classification, which governs the class rates generally in the territory north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River...
Page 662 - ... a just standard of value would give the creditor a somewhat increased amount of goods and exact from the debtor a somewhat diminished amount of labor. " In ordinary experience it probably would not be far from the mark if our standard were of such a character as to divide the results of industrial progress about equally between the debtor and the creditor; but from the point of view of economic theory there is no assurance that this would be the case. All would depend on the course of human feeling...
Page 329 - ... shall be held, during the life of this award, in some convenient public building in the neighborhood of the plant, to be selected by the examiner of this board assigned to supervise the execution of this award, or, in case of his absence, by come impartial person, a resident of Springfield, Mass., to be selected by such examiner.